Valerie is a sculptor and mixed media artist best known for her large-scale art installations at Burning Man.

She began creating art for Burning Man in 2004. In 2013, her work grew from the Center Camp Café to the open playa with a series of large-scale art installations, including “Womantree” (2014), “Soul Refuge” (2015), “The Bridge and the Cage” (2017), “The Garden of Relationships” (2018), “Bottled Up Genie” (2019) and “Secretly Abandoned Spaces” (2022). In 2023, she's bringing a new installation to the playa, called “Playful Again!”